All students at universities in Australia pay fees.
Most students at public universities contribute to the cost of their tertiary education through payment of their Student Contribution Amount (fees) which can be deferred onto the Commonwealth Government’s Higher Education loan Scheme HECS-HELP.
From 2005, under new legislation, all Australian students enrolled in an approved course at The University of Notre Dame Australia will have access to a Commonwealth loan scheme, either FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP.
The FEE-HELP limit in 2008 is $102,000 for Medicine students and $81,600 for other students. These limits increase in 2009 to $104,142 for Medicine and $83,313 for all other students. Students will not have to commence repaying their loan until their income reaches at least $39,825 in the 2007/2008 financial year and $41,595 in the 2008/2009 financial year. (This amount will be amended through a CPI indexing calculation each year.)
Since 1999, the Commonwealth Government has provided an increasing number of fully funded Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) for Notre Dame students. These places are allocated to the Broome Campus and to Fremantle and Sydney students enrolled in the Tertiary Enabling Program, pre-service Teaching, Nursing and graduate Medicine.
